6 nights · Winter
Snow country in winter: Ginzan, Uonuma and Tanigawa
A round trip from Tokyo to three hot-spring ryokan in the snow: Ginzan Onsen in Yamagata, then Osawayama in Niigata's rice country and Tanigawa Onsen below the mountains of Gunma. It is for baths in the snow and for evenings in small inns, each a train ride from the next.
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- Winter
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We build it around you
Tell us your dates, your pace and who is travelling. We draw the route around them, choose the inns and rooms, arrange the trains and cars between each stay, and stay one point of contact from the first plan to the last night. Every stay at its own rate.
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1 · 2 nightsFujiya InnAn eight-room inn in the wooden street of Ginzan Onsen, for the gas lamps on the river in the snow and its five private baths, about three hours and ten minutes from Tokyo by the Tsubasa to Oishida and the inn's car, which meets the trains at about 13:30 or 15:30. Leaving, the car reaches Oishida from about 10:30, and the Tsubasa to Omiya (about 2 hours 45 minutes) and the Joetsu Shinkansen to Echigo-Yuzawa (about 50 minutes) take about five hours in all to the next inn.
2 · 2 nightsSatoyama JujoA ryokan built around an old farmhouse in the Uonuma hills, for dinner from the valley's rice and mountain vegetables and an open-air bath facing the snowfields; a flat-fare taxi the ryokan books runs from Echigo-Yuzawa. On to Tanigawa, the Joetsu Shinkansen from Echigo-Yuzawa reaches Jomo-Kogen in about 15 minutes, then about 25 minutes by bus or taxi.
3 · 2 nightsBettei SenjuanAn eighteen-room ryokan on the Tanigawa river, each room with its own open-air bath facing Mount Tanigawa, to end the trip close to Tokyo; back at Jomo-Kogen, the Joetsu Shinkansen reaches Tokyo in about 75 minutes.
Make it yours
This is one way to do it. We change the stays, their order and the nights in each to suit you, move it to the season you want, and plan the days between: the trains and cars, the restaurants worth the detour, a quieter night where the route needs one. Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team in Japan will draw up your own.
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